Large weights

Are you carrying a little extra weight around the middle? Maybe you’ve got more than just a little weight problem – maybe it’s a rather large one and you need to get rid of the fat for health reasons. Rest assured that you’re not alone! Obesity in America is at an all-time high. One of out of every three Americans is obese – a number that has doubled in just ten years. This epidemic is growing out of control in other countries as well as fast food franchises open in China, Japan, Germany, and other industrialized nations. ...

We describe an original method that automatically ﬁnds speciﬁc topics in a large collection of texts. Each topic is ﬁrst identiﬁed as a speciﬁc cluster of texts and then represented as a virtual concept, which is a weighted mixture of words. Our intention is to employ these virtual concepts in document indexing. In this paper we show some preliminary experimental results and discuss directions of future work.

With a few exceptions, discriminative training in statistical machine translation (SMT) has been content with tuning weights for large feature sets on small development data. Evidence from machine learning indicates that increasing the training sample size results in better prediction. The goal of this paper is to show that this common wisdom can also be brought to bear upon SMT.

This is a business improvement book for everyone. Whether you are a small business, large
company, head of a division, run a department or are an individual employee who simply wants
better results, this book is for you.
We're all feeling the effects of the recession and generalized economic malaise that has gripped
our country and the world. The need now is to operate more effectively in a more competitive
environment with fewer customers. The business improvement methodologies you need to be
more successful are contained here in this book....

In November 2003 the Road Pavement Forum resolved that a technical working group should be formed to investigate the development of a national guideline (or code of practice) on the use of Asphalt Reinforcement. For the purpose of this study the main functions of Asphalt Reinforcement
Interlayer (ARI) is to:prevent or reduce reflective cracking from underlying layers,protect asphalt layers against traffic induced cracking,avoid or reduce development of rutting in asphalt layers.

The use of industrially manufactured nitrogen (N)
fertilizers increased rapidly in developed countries
between 1960 and 1980. This facilitated a large increase
in the production of feed and food grains (maize, wheat,
and rice) per unit of cultivated land, but in some regions it
also contributed to enrichment of surface and groundwater
with various forms of nitrogen. Fertilizer, however, is not
the only source of nitrogen that can cause contamination of
surface waters.

Regardless of the motivation, sponsor behavior observed through these support instances suggests that
while the costs can be significant, the perceived benefits at the time of support were greater to most fund
sponsors. Understanding both the significance to the sponsor and their motivations would be important in
making judgments as to whether investors should reasonably expect this model to continue, as it is
possible that the sponsor value proposition could shift, especially where necessary support amounts are
large. ...

The impact of an earthquake, flood or war on reproductive health can be devastating.
Communities in crisis are suddenly deprived of reproductive health information and services.
Access is cut off, yet needs persist, even escalate. A large number of refugees and internally
displaced women will be pregnant, facing delivery under dangerous conditions; others may
be victims of violence including rape.
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is committed to assisting and protecting women,
men and youth made vulnerable by natural disaster, armed conflict, persecution and other causes.

Long term interest rates play an important role in economics and Önance due
to their impact on real activity. Nevertheless, it is widely recognized that
forecasting their level is di¢ cult. In the same way, modelling their link to
monetary policy is not so easy even if this relationship appears crucial, as
emphasized by Goodfriend (1993) for the United States. Similarly the same
di¢ culty concerns the rational expectations hypothesis framework in which
most empirical analyses of the term structure of interest rates are conducted.

Leadership is one of the most important and essential factors in good project
management. Leadership can be seen as the art of influencing others to achieve desired
results. Leaders guide behaviors by setting the vision, direction and the key processes; in
other words, leadership has a large influence on the whole project process, including the
actions of others.
Jack Welch, previous CEO of General Electric, is reported to have called his
direct reports together one day and issued a three word dictum: “Don’t manage!
Lead!”(Slater, 1998).

Here, bank A has borrowed from bank B, and bank B
has borrowed from bank C, etc. Then, if A takes a
hit and defaults, then bank B will suffer a loss. If the
loss is large enough to wipe out B’s capital, then B
defaults. Bank C then takes a hit. In turn, if the loss
is big enough, bank C defaults, etc. We could dub this
the “domino” model of ﬁ nancial contagion.
If the domino model of ﬁ nancial contagion is the
relevant one for our world, then defaults on subprime
mortgages would have had...

Mover’s Distance (EMD) to explicitly align the volumes. In
contrast to the fixed volume-to-volume matching used in
[25], the space-time volumes of two videos across different
space-time locations can be matched using our ASTPM
method, making it better at coping with the large intraclass
variations within the same type of events (e.g., moving
objects in consumer videos can appear at different space-
time locations, and the background within two different
videos, even captured from the same scene, may be shifted
due to considerable camera motion).

California, like many states, is facing a large budget deficit and difficult budgetary choices. The state
legislature has made cuts to Early Care and Education (ECE)1 projected to total more than
$1.6 billion between fiscal years 2009–2010 and 2011–2012 (California Budget Project [CBP] 2011).
Since 2009, California has faced double-digit unemployment rates (California Employment
Development Department 2011) and unemployment is projected to remain at that level through
2012 (Legislative Analyst’s Office [LAO] 2010b).

Despite mounting public concern, the factors influencing this illness are not fully understood,
especially for children. Medical research has demonstrated that asthma is both a chronic and acute illness.
In the chronic aspect, an individual’s airways are persistently inflamed and their immune system is hyper-
responsive, but the causes of this remain largely unknown (American Lung Association (2000)).

In this paper we introduce a novel use of the lexicographic semiring and motivate its use for speech and language processing tasks. We prove that the semiring allows for exact encoding of backoff models with epsilon transitions. This allows for off-line optimization of exact models represented as large weighted ﬁnite-state transducers in contrast to implicit (on-line) failure transition representations.

We find that
the market capitalization of railroads (SIC 4000) in the CRSP population is 12 percent of the
total. We find that the market capitalization of public utilities, including electric, gas, and
sanitary services (SIC 4900), as well as communications (SIC 4800) and local and interurban
passenger transit (SIC 4100) accounts for 17 percent of the total market capitalization of the
CRSP population of companies. The remaining 71 percent is considered to be in industrials.

The theory of automorphic functions in one complex variable was created
during the second half of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth
centuries. Important contributions are due to such illustrious mathematicians
as F. Klein, P. Koebe and H. Poincare. Two sources may be
traced: the uniformization theory of algebraic functions, and certain topics
in number theory. Automorphic functions with respect to groups with
compact quotient space on the one hand and elliptic modular functions on
the other are examples of these two aspects.

Such a criticism of course applies with particular force to the US Federal Reserve since, in addition to their monetary responsibilities, they are also the regulator of US bank holding companies. They need to explain why they were not more forceful and effective in getting banks under their charge to reduce the concentration risk associated with large holdings of both unsecuritized and securitized mortgages and other asset-backed securities.
10 Reform of Wall Street compensation plans has been discussed for some time, going back well before this crisis.

The objective of medicine is to address people’s unavoidable
needs for emotional and physical healing. The discipline has
evolved over millennia by drawing on the religious beliefs and
social structures of numerous indigenous peoples, by exploit-
ing natural products in their environments, and more recently
by developing and validating therapeutic and preventive
approaches using the scientific method.

There aren’t still the exact criteria for measuring speaking skills as well as the weighting given to such components as correct pronunciation.
The interdependence of the speaking and listening skill increases the difficulty of any serious attempt to analyze precisely what is being tested at one time.
Administration is another difficulty as it is impossible to test a large number of students because of limited time involved